Comments for MindShare Learning http://mindsharelearning.ca EdTech Strategy Consulting, 21st Century Learning, and Innovation Thu, 17 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Why We Need Teacher-Innovators by simkathy http://mindsharelearning.ca/2012/05/02/why-we-need-teacher-innovators/#comment-24 simkathy Thu, 17 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000 http://mindsharelearning.ca/?p=2771#comment-24 I am surprised to hear you would deem Canadians less innovative in education as in the recent years I have found the most innovative thinkers to be coming from Canada. In fact, I've asked myself "what is in the Canadian waters?" Stephen Downes and George Siemens, the Couros brothers have lead me to very innovative understandings. The massive free courses they offer are incredible ecosystems for stimulating thought. Maybe Canadians need to become more aware of their own internal innovators who provide a bounty of new understandings - for free! I am surprised to hear you would deem Canadians less innovative in education as in the recent years I have found the most innovative thinkers to be coming from Canada. In fact, I’ve asked myself “what is in the Canadian waters?” Stephen Downes and George Siemens, the Couros brothers have lead me to very innovative understandings. The massive free courses they offer are incredible ecosystems for stimulating thought. Maybe Canadians need to become more aware of their own internal innovators who provide a bounty of new understandings – for free!

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]]> Comment on Book Review: The Mobile Learning Edge by Gary Woodill http://mindsharelearning.ca/2011/07/28/book-review-the-mobile-learning-edge/#comment-7 Gary Woodill Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:29:00 +0000 http://mindsharelearning.ca/?p=860#comment-7 Thanks for the review, David. You are one of the first people to quickly get the BIG IDEA about mobile learning - that it is about learners moving or at least being able to move, while learning both from the world around them AND the information that is available from the resources in the "cloud" that is everywhere. I am now pointing out to people that the classroom is a form of "sensory deprivation" because it takes immediate sensory experiences and turns them into texts to be studied, thus removing context. My new short definition of mobile learning is "learning in context". Gary Thanks for the review, David. You are one of the first people to quickly get the BIG IDEA about mobile learning – that it is about learners moving or at least being able to move, while learning both from the world around them AND the information that is available from the resources in the “cloud” that is everywhere. I am now pointing out to people that the classroom is a form of “sensory deprivation” because it takes immediate sensory experiences and turns them into texts to be studied, thus removing context. My new short definition of mobile learning is “learning in context”.

Gary

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